The pediatric wisdom is that it’s often the mother who asks the question. But she usually says the question comes from the boy’s father.
His dad is worried, she begins. Is our son’s penis a normal size? Is it too small? Is something wrong?
Most of the time, everything is perfectly normal. But what most of those boys have in common is their physique: They tend to be overweight.
Questions about penis size have become more common over the past decade, as my colleagues and I have all seen more overweight children coming in for physical exams. And these worries reflect cultural preoccupations and anxieties, which can make the conversation highly fraught for all concerned.
“I see dissatisfaction with the phallus very regularly,” said Dr. Aseem Shukla, a pediatric urologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and associate professor of urology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He said that with 10- to 11-year-old boys, “a common thing is, my son’s penis is too short.”
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